Baton Rouge to Venice
104.3 LBD Batture Houses The Batture Houses are a string of thirteen houses on the riverside of the levee. They are the last homes on the batture between Baton Rouge and the Gulf of Mexico (according to historian Oliver Houck). Before the 1950’s, the east bank batture was
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104.2 LBD Ochsner Medical Center As you round Avondale Bend five miles upstream you will be met by a glorious view of the Huey P. Long Bridge and the Ochsner Medical Center just downstream beyond. Poison Ivy got out of control? Feeling a fever you can’t get rid
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104.8 RBD T.T. Barge Coatings, Inc One of the nastiest smelling locations along the Lower Mississippi. The overspray from this facility might cause you to gag and give you headaches if you pass too closely. Give wide berth, especially in south, southeast or east wind.
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105 LBD - Camp Parapet & Parapet Line The Parapet Line (1861 - 1862), Confederate earthworks built in the Metairie area along present-day Causeway Boulevard, with Camp Parapet at the southern terminus. The 1.5 mile long works were unfinished when the Union captured the city in April 1862. Camp
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106.1 Huey P. Long Bridge The Huey P. Long Bridge carries both autos and trains, and it is the second to last bridge on the entire Mississippi River system. Named after the infamous Louisiana governor Huey P. Long “Kingfish” whose populist rule lasted between 1928 and 1932. He served
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106.1 RBD - Fort Banks Fort Banks (1861-1865), first established in 1861 as an unnamed Confederate fort on the orders of MG Mansfield Lovell for 90 men and six 32 pounders. Captured by Adm. David Farragut's Union naval forces in April 1862 and made a part of
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105.2 LBD Zito Fleeting. LLC/Intercoastal Marine Repairs, Inc., Mooring
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106.4 LBD National Maintenance and Repair of Louisiana, Inc., Mooring
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107.4 RBD T.T. Barge Cleaning Inc. East Bank Wharf.
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107.6 RBD Litton Industries The Litton Industries Docks No 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all strung along this right bank descending for the next mile from 107.6 - 106.6 RBD, the idled remains of Avondale Shipyards.
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107.7 RBD - Avondale Ship Yard As you come around 12-Mile Point and the Huey P. Long Bridge appears downstream, paddlers will be amazed by the largest drydock yet seen on the Lower Mississippi River. If it seems as long as an ocean-going freighter, guess what: it is! This
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107.8 RBD Litton/Avondale Industries, Inc., Main Plant Wet Dock No. 1